Julia Alvarez

About the artist

Julia Alvarez (born March 27, 1950) is a Dominican-American poet, novelist, and essayist. Born in New York of Dominican descent, she spent the first ten years of her childhood in the Dominican Republic, until her father's involvement in a political rebellion forced her family to flee the country. Alvarez rose to prominence with the novels How the García Girls Lost Their Accents (1991), In the Time of the Butterflies (1994), and Yo! (1997). Her publications as a poet include Homecoming (1984) and The Woman I Kept to Myself (2004)

Top songs

  1. Desear
  2. Hermosa
  3. In Dreams
  4. Enchanting Melodies
  5. Inmarcesible
  6. Graceful Sleep
  7. In the Time of the Butterflies (Unabridged) Part 1 of 6
  8. In the Time of the Butterflies (Unabridged) Part 2 of 6
  9. In the Time of the Butterflies (Unabridged) Part 3 of 6
  10. In the Time of the Butterflies (Unabridged) Part 5 of 6
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  1. 5g
  2. Diurnal Mammoth
  3. In the Time of the Butterflies (Unabridged) Part 6 of 6
  4. In the Time of the Butterflies (Unabridged) Part 4 of 6
  5. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Unabridged), Part 1
  6. Quiero
  7. 1d
  8. In the Time of the Butterflies (Unabridged) Part 1
  9. 6n
  10. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Unabridged) Part 1 of 4
  11. Butterflies 2r
  12. Before We Were Free (Unabridged)
  13. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Unabridged) Part 2 of 4
  14. FM1i
  15. En el Tiempo de las Mariposas (Texto Completo) [In the Time of the Butterflies] (Unabridged) Part 1
  16. 8c
  17. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Unabridged), Part 2
  18. Butterflies 1g
  19. The Cemetery of Untold Stories
  20. In the Time of the Butterflies (Unabridged) Part 2
  21. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Unabridged) Part 1
  22. Chapter 18
  23. 8m
  24. Butterflies 2d
  25. Butterflies 2e
  26. How Tia Lola Came to (Visit) Stay
  27. Chapter 19
  28. Chapter 20
  29. Girando
  30. 1a
  31. 1b
  32. 1c
  33. 1h
  34. In the Time of the Butterflies (Unabridged)
  35. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Unabridged) Part 3 of 4
  36. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Unabridged) Part 4 of 4
  37. How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents (Unabridged)
  38. Unit 1 - Names/Nombres
  39. FM1b
  40. FM1c
  41. FM1d
  42. FM1e
  43. FM1f
  44. FM1g
  45. FM1j
  46. FM2a
  47. FM2b
  48. FM2c
  49. FM2d
  50. FM2e
  51. FM2f
  52. Finding Miracles (Unabridged)
  53. In the Time of the Butterflies
  54. 1f
  55. 1g
  56. In the Time of the Butterflies (Unabridged), Part 1
  57. In the Time of the Butterflies (Unabridged), Part 2
  58. En el Tiempo de las Mariposas (Texto Completo) [In the Time of the Butterflies] (Unabridged) Part 2
  59. 6j
  60. 6k
  61. 6l
  62. 6m
  63. 6o
  64. 6p
  65. 6q
  66. 6r
  67. 7a
  68. 7b
  69. 7c
  70. 7d
  71. 7e
  72. 7f
  73. 7g
  74. 7h
  75. 7i
  76. 7j
  77. 7k
  78. 7l
  79. 7m
  80. 7n
  81. 7o
  82. 7p
  83. 7q
  84. 7r
  85. 7s
  86. 8a
  87. 8b
  88. 8d
  89. 8e
  90. 8f

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